Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Compact keyboards
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Compact keyboards, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Symbols like ( need three key presses instead of two2024-12-12
- Digits remapped to extra letters, so entering a digit needs a keypad or modifier key2023-08-23
- Can't reach the up-arrow key with pinky; a finger slip moves the cursor and misplaces typed text2023-03-24
- Small keyboards need memorizing multiple layers for dozens of keys2017-11-15